Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

Catherynne M. Valente

• Peace
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• Excitement
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• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Always
  • Emotions
  • Weather

• I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Guy
  • Technology

• I am only about winning and getting better.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Winning
  • Better

• We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Time
  • Me
  • Television

• One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.

  

  Edmund White
  • Career
  • You
  • Benefits

• It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Up
  • May
  • More

• There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • America
  • Discussion

• Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Changed
  • Last
  • Hawaii

• I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Want
  • Me
  • Myself

• Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.

  

  OMI
  • Important
  • Roots
  • Stay Focused

• If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Time
  • Business
  • Help

• Opening up Atlantic and Arctic waters to drilling would lock the next generation into burning oil and gas in a way that only makes climate change that much worse, fueling ever rising seas, widening deserts, withering drought, blistering heat, raging storms, wildfires, floods and other hallmarks of climate chaos.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Change
  • Chaos

• What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Music
  • Simple

• Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.

  

  Otis Rush
  • You
  • Nobody
  • Blues

• I like spending time with my husband.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Time
  • Husband
  • Spending Time

• In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Existence
  • Exist
  • Agreement

• O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • King

• Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Time
  • Country
  • Energy

• I want a further step for me...that's my process of development. I don't want to cut it off. I understand where it's been cut off for other people, and I understand the whole process in that order of things, but I see no way in that isn't a trap, that will let me out again without damaging too much, you know?

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People

• What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Forever

• Haec est Italia diis sacra

  

  Pliny the Elder

• I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Pain

• I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Peace
  • Possible
  • Excitement